Lucky,

Gradually acclimate your babies to their future growing conditions by opening the bag bit by bit over about a week or so. You can then remove them from the bag to their growing spot.

I would wait until your ears are about 1/2" in width but that is a very general size. You just don't want to start when they are teeny-tiny.

The process of acclimating plants to their final growing spot is called 'hardening-off'.

Linda

Lucky,

Linda has answered quite well. I, personally, don't use potting mix at all to set leaves. I use a mix of perlite and vermiculite. This is just what I use.

I don't usually seal my baggies, I like the old-syle foldover sandwich bags; however, sometimes I use the ziplock ones and they can do fine in there for quite awhile. However, if it looks too wet, for goodness sake, open the bag :)

Congratulations on the babies. I'm tickled that I have tiny Chantasprings in a sealed baggie right now.

6 weeks is fast for mouse ears :)

Yes, very fast.

Yes, 6 weeks
I opened the bag and it is definitely a Mouse Ear

However it is in severe danger from the two legged pest who wants to check its progress every hour or so.

For this one, after reading the suggestions, I am going to leave it alone for a while. The baggie is not that wet and the soil feels just right.

"Oh, I'm pacing the floor over you" (croons to little mouse ear)

Chantaspring was put down on 4/30 so it got its teensy bits of green a little short of 6 weeks (I hadn't checked).

However, nothing else from that order has done a blessed thing and I have a good many other ones that I'm starting to poke at :)

Diana

Diana
I have a leaf I put in a pot a week earlier and it doesn't even have any bits of perlite I could mistake for progress.
AV's are so strange. But if I can get one, maybe I can get more.
My First Mouse Ear! Which probably won't survive my poking, prodding and looking but at least, by George, I did it.
I used AV soil and perlite because I didn't have vermiculite but it seems to work well if it is mostly perlite.

LOL! Leave the poor thing alone. Its not going to suddenly have a growth spurt just because you can see it. I would just do the same thing you have been doing for a little while longer. Then when it gets a little bigger, you can worry about hardening it off.

Next to over-watering, too much 'love, help and/or curiosity' is the number one killer of plants! Leave that leaf alone! ;)

As an aside-my quickest time for babies, (big enough to divide), is 2 weeks. I was going to Italy so I was giving my plants a last once-over. I accidentally knocked a leaf from 'Arabian Night' and just stuck it in some soil. When I came back, two weeks later, there were babies. Big babies!

I have since learned that I can put a leaf of AN on the driveway, come back in three days and there will be babies. I wish they were all that easy!

Linda

This post was edited by whitelacey on Tue, Jun 10, 14 at 23:44